This is the biggest most expensive Beals Science build of all time
Hey guys, welcome to Beals Science. I'm Craig Beals with a
1979
postal delivery jeep
With a bowling ball cannon mounted in the back. This was never supposed to happen. So we went down to the scrap yard
started looking for some steel - found it -
And by the time we left the scrap yard, not only did we have a tube
We had the shell of a jeep. It didn't look like this
It was literally just a shell and so over the course of the next two months
I set Shaun free on this build. Then he went totally crazy
Look at this!
It didn't run! It didn't have anything
And look at it now! We got Jeep update
It purrs like a kitten
Now mind you it did not have a carburetor. It did not have a radiator. It didn't have any of the belts
It didn't have a distributor, didn't have a battery, didn't have a starter. Didn't have brakes. It had nothing
Now it does
Now we've got this
Jeep on our hands with a cannon in the back
and really all I've got left is to drive it around a little bit see if we can tear it up and
Then shoot this cannon off.
We're towing the Jeep out into the flatlands of Montana
And we're going to shoot this thing and see how far they go
But we've got about an hour drive to get there
And it probably gives us a good amount of time to really think about our feelings and think about our decisions
And whether or not this is really that great of a decision at all
But either way, we are going to make this cannon go boom!
Somebody's going to get hurt here today
*Thunder* Good place to be during a thunderstorm. I was worried about the cannon. Maybe I should be worried about mother nature
My wife made me promise not to kill the kids
I'll try my hardest not to
We're strictly going off...I mean... we don't know
There's no handbook as it turns out. This is the powder. We've got 10 pounds of powder
I don't think we should probably do it all at once.
I think we're gonna start with about half a pound
Want to vote? Half pound or a pound?
What you got there on your ears? *Shaun - protection!
Let's go. I'm gonna turn all these on because we're making... we're changing YouTube
We're making the world a better place through the YouTube.
We're educating America through bowling balls and
Gunpowder and cannons. We've got approximately 15 different cameras.
I think the only reason people showed up to film this is
Because they think it's gonna blow up. There we go. We're filled up the powder. We get half a pound powder
We don't know if that's enough
Or if it's too much
This is like a bottomless pit, yeah, I don't think I said my face this close!
I chose this one because
Brenda, whoever Brenda is, got a really nice ball with metallic in it
That wasn't bad, I think we need more powder, we need more powder
That was awesome!
Half a pound was not enough
when in doubt
Go bigger! Like we say in my chemistry class...
If a little is good, more is better and then I remind the students that's not really true in chemistry class
It's a large grain black powder that,
The goal is to have it burn really slowly to build up pressure behind it instead of just have one big kaboom
When it turns into a gas takes up more space than it does when it's a solid as it expands
It takes up space inside of there
It's got to push that ball out. I think that a lot of it escaped around the outside of the ball in that last one
I can't imagine this is normal protocol or you just put the whole package in there
Well, well
Okay, so this proves the theory yeah
More is better. Well, plus we changed the angle. I mean that thing hung out there for a long time!
Approximately 45 minutes. All right, we get one more angle. Yeah, let's do it. We have destroyed all sorts of things
We have bowling balls scattered across the landscape
But we're going big with a pound and a half of powder
So the most we've done so far is a pound of powder and we're gonna crank it up to about 35 degrees
We we can only launch so many bowling balls a long distance before we get bored of
launching bowling balls long distance, so
we're gonna shoot this toilet with a 10 pound bowling ball and
Watch it explode.
I think we got it, I think we may connect!
And if we do, we're gonna wash our hands and we're gonna leave this hilltop forever because you know what we have achieved
ninja status of bowling ball cannoning!
Well, this has without a doubt
Been one of my favorite builds of all time
It's a jeep with a cannon in it. It's awesome. What I'd like to do is hear from you
What do you think? We should shoot out of this thing? What do you think we should shoot at? What should we blow up?
I mean give me some ideas put them down there in the comments. That'd be fantastic
Maybe hit the little like button thumbs up even better hit the subscribe button over there
I've got a lot more videos coming up
Plus you're gonna want to see what we do next with this bad boy
And if you want more come over the BealsScience.com. I need to get a lot of people thank-yous
First of all, I need to give Shaun Jones who helped create this masterpiece or disaster whichever way you look at it
and of course
Thank you to Grizzly Creek Films who showed up here because they wanted to see this thing go boom!
And they brought the big cameras and you know things just wouldn't have been the same without their amazing cameras
And of course, Houston Harmon who brought us out to his ranch in the center of Montana and just let us launch bowling balls
I mean, you know
That's pretty sweet and countless other people who have helped out on this project the whole way through. I thank you for watching
I really do and like we always say at the end of every little Beals Science video, "Keep on learning"!